u/ObieFTG

Because that one single piece will have both Protection From Elites from its rework AND Armor On Kill as it's extra attribute. The two essential blue core stats, that you normally would have to sacrifice two mods slots for on tank builds, will exist on ONE piece of armor that you don't even have to use the Ninjabike Backpack to access because PFE will be the first set bonus on 5.11s.

Fellow tanks, we're gonna be eating really good next season.

I’ve been thinking about how Cyberpunk should handle V whenever we eventually move past 2077. The thought came from a short on YT I saw wondering if they’d mention V in Edgerunners 2.

Obviously V existed. The events of the game happened and are canon to the Pondsmith universe. The problem is that the second CDPR starts getting specific about V, they’re going to have to start making choices that invalidate somebody’s version of the character.

Because who exactly was V? Vincent or Valerie? Corpo, Streetkid or Nomad? Netrunner? Solo? Walking tank with enough chrome to make Maelstrom jealous?

Even personality is impossible to pin down. My V might have genuinely cared about the people around them. Yours might have treated Night City like one giant shooting gallery.

Then you get to the endings and it gets even messier. That’s why I don’t think future Cyberpunk games or media should ever give us a definitive answer. I actually think they should lean into the uncertainty.

V shouldn’t be remembered the way Morgan Blackhand, Johnny Silverhand or Adam Smasher are. Those are historical figures. People know what they looked like. There are records of them. There are people who actually knew them.

V should become something closer to an urban legend. Everybody in Night City has heard of V. Nobody seems to know the same V.

You could have some merc at the Afterlife swear V was a woman who could walk into an Arasaka facility and wipe the entire building without anyone knowing she was there. Guy sitting next to him says that’s bullshit…V was some dude from Heywood. Best gunslinger he’d ever seen. Someone else heard V used to work for Arasaka. A Nomad insists V came from the Badlands. And of course there’s always going to be some asshole at the end of the bar telling everybody his cousin actually knew V.

That’s how I’d want CDPR to reference the events of 2077 going forward. Don’t confirm anything. Actually contradict it. Have different people tell completely different stories about V.

One person says V killed Adam Smasher. Someone else says Smasher killed V. Another heard V walked into Arasaka Tower alone. Someone else remembers hearing there was a whole crew involved.

Maybe somebody says V went beyond the Blackwall and never came back. Maybe someone else swears V became the biggest merc at the Afterlife and eventually disappeared.

None of them actually know. And the funny thing is, neither do we. We all played Cyberpunk 2077, but we didn’t actually meet the same V. There are millions of versions of this person depending on who was holding the controller. Trying to decide which one was the “real” V would take something away from that.

It also fits Night City perfectly. This is a place full of corporate propaganda, rumors, bad information, corrupted records and people talking complete shit at bars. Even Johnny’s memories show us that what somebody remembers happening and what actually happened aren’t necessarily the same thing.

Give that another 20 or 30 years.

“V killed Adam Smasher.”

“Bullshit.”

“I’m telling you, choom. Went straight into Arasaka Tower.”

“With who?”

“Nobody.”

And that’s where I think V eventually becomes more interesting than any other famous mercenary. Jackie wanted to become a Night City legend. Johnny became one. Morgan Blackhand became one.

V shouldn’t get a statue. We shouldn’t get a biography explaining what really happened. Hell, don’t even give us a clear picture of them. Just let people keep telling stories.

After enough time, nobody remembers exactly who V was anymore. Half the things attributed to them probably weren’t even done by V. Every generation adds another piece to the story until the person underneath it basically disappears. But people still know the name.

That’s when V stops being a legend and becomes a myth.

"Leave The World Below." Pffft...and get slaughtered by Bombardiers or Rats? You're fooling nobody. I'll stay in Speranza, TYVM.

And when are we getting a "Don't Shoot" emote? lol